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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1889
Page
2
The piece reports on Prohibitionists expanding in Mississippi and a Washington dispatch about the deficien cy bill and Justice Department funding. It also critiques convict labor policies and a license tax on land deeds, praising legislators while noting lottery ad limits. Reports from Syracuse Kansas describe Bear Creek Valley settlement growth and grain prospects.
Readers are urged to visit Kansas to see frontier life improving with churches and Sunday schools. The letter describes pleasant weather, wildlife such as antelope and prairie dogs, and trapping success. It also reports on the drummer tax in North Carolina, a Tampa cyclone, pensions for Mexican veterans, railroad flood damage, and various political and legal notes from several states.
An advertisement claims a salve cures cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded and priced at 25 cents per box, sold by A. E. Smith & Co.
A sentimental poem praising Nora’s beauty and virtue contrasts with a Raleigh Observer note about a possible Bingham in the far west. Local items mention a Greensboro to Raker City railroad charter and reflections on health cures with Green's August Flour and its advertised benefits.
Dress making of every style promptly and neatly executed at low prices for superior work. Mrs Laws and her daughter bring latest styles from the city to High Point. Call at their residence on Thomasville Street first house east of Rev Mr Daiton's.
As administrator of the estate of David Jordan deceased I notify all indebted persons to pay promptly and all creditors to present claims by December 22, 1887. This December 22, 1886. W H Ragan Admr.
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